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What's the point of talking to your child?
Alex Cristia 11/02/2012
Incredible! Listening to ‘When I’m 64’ makes you forget your age
Olivier Morin 30/01/2012
Are humans innately bad social scientists?
Nicolas Baumard 26/01/2012
Twelve Lessons (Most of Which I Learned the Hard Way) for Evolutionary Psychologists
Dan Fessler 20/01/2012
Blogs from ICCI contributors
Olivier Morin 11/01/2012
Why are some languages more regular than others?
Dan Sperber 01/01/2012
The scope-severity paradox
Anikó Sebestény 30/10/2011
Atheist clergymen and belief in belief
Helen De Cruz 22/10/2011
An epidemiology-of-representations solution to a WWII shipwreck mystery
Dan Sperber 16/10/2011
Why are human beings so interested in explaining misfortune?
Pascal Boyer 12/08/2011
Epistemic vigilance... and epistemic recklessness
Pascal Boyer 07/08/2011
Snipe hunters of preys with low epistemic vigilance
Radu Umbres 02/07/2011
Mèng Zǐ (372 – 289 BCE) on the moral organ
Nicolas Baumard 24/06/2011
Adam Smith (1723-1790) on mirror neurons and empathy
Nicolas Baumard 23/06/2011
Smith (1723-1790) on innateness and cultural variability
Nicolas Baumard 22/06/2011
Adam Smith (1723-1790) on ultimate and proximate causes in psychology
Nicolas Baumard 21/06/2011
Adam Smith (1723 – 1790) on intuitive and reflective processes
Nicolas Baumard 20/06/2011
History of social sciences week!
Nicolas Baumard 19/06/2011
Fast lemons and intuitive beliefs
Ophelia Deroy 06/06/2011
Offensive inanity in the name of evolutionary psychology
ICCI Team 03/06/2011

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SES & input quantity

Alex Cristia 15/02/2012

Gordon, thank you for the reference. Your comment was very helpful, and I'll definitely look into that resource, with which I wasn't familiar. On the question of quantity, you were right that there is some within-culture variation. There was once a p…

People from 'other' cultures speak less frequently to infants, but they do speak to them

Gordon Ingram 13/02/2012

I suspect that the linguists may have got the idea of (1) from social/cultural anthropologists, who as we know are often ready to present other cultures as alien in many respects. You could try HRAF, if you have access:http://ehrafworldcultures.yale.…

The Clergy Project

Dennis Smith 30/01/2012

As a result of the Dennett/LaScola study a group was formed called The Clergy Project with the help of a grant from the Richard Dawkins Foundation. The public site is here. http://clergyproject.org/ There are now around 150 members both former and cu…

social sciences and folk social sciences

Radu Umbres 27/01/2012

From an anthropological corner, I agree with Olivier that humans make good social scientists. In fact, humans are excellent social scientists of their own society - competent users of a folk theory of the social which would include things like a mode…

Why we don't get much respect

Gordon Ingram 26/01/2012

Olivier makes a good point. Social scientists don't get much respect from laypeople because we share similar domains of interest to them. We are perceived as simply putting into fancy words the kind of thinking that the folk do intuitively (perhaps w…

In praise of anthropologists (and others)

Olivier Morin 26/01/2012

Just to sound a more positive note… Judging from what you quoted, Bob Trivers seems to voice a common complaint among scientifically-minded people. To put it bluntly, all the real progress would come from the natural sciences. Social science would be…

Thanks!

Nicolas Baumard 24/01/2012

Thank you very for your encouragement. I hope indeed that I'll find the time to pursue this project one day! I agree with you that Jack Hirshleifer' paper is often ignored. Dan Sperber and I actually cite it in a paper to appear in Mind and Language …

Great idea! Another early contributor to theory of moral emotions

David Hirshleifer 24/01/2012

Your idea for a history of social sciences book is great! I hope you write it, I'd love to read it.Per Frank's and Trivers' modern theory of the moral emotions: in the interest of both nepotism and history of social science, I'll mention Jack Hirshle…

Great article

Claire White 22/01/2012

Bravo to Dan for writing this paper. It is a really valuable resource to students and those engaging with the evolutionary sciences. It contains advice that is seldom made explicit or, as Dan describes, that one finds out through many years of experi…

Sociolinguistic Typology

Peter Trudgill 18/01/2012

There is a rather long – 288 pp – attempt to answer this and similar questions in my new book Sociolinguistic typology: social determinants of linguistic complexity published by Oxford University Press. The short answer seems to be that there are ten…

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What's the point of talking to your child?

Incredible! Listening to ‘When I’m 64’ makes you forget your age

Are humans innately bad social scientists?

Twelve Lessons (Most of Which I Learned the Hard Way) for Evolutionary Psychologists

Blogs from ICCI contributors

Why are some languages more regular than others?

The scope-severity paradox

Atheist clergymen and belief in belief

An epidemiology-of-representations solution to a WWII shipwreck mystery

Why are human beings so interested in explaining misfortune?

Epistemic vigilance... and epistemic recklessness

Snipe hunters of preys with low epistemic vigilance

Mèng Zǐ (372 – 289 BCE) on the moral organ

Adam Smith (1723-1790) on mirror neurons and empathy

Smith (1723-1790) on innateness and cultural variability

Adam Smith (1723-1790) on ultimate and proximate causes in psychology

Adam Smith (1723 – 1790) on intuitive and reflective processes

History of social sciences week!

Fast lemons and intuitive beliefs

Offensive inanity in the name of evolutionary psychology